"It was as if someone had taken a……" — Virginia Woolf
"It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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More Bead Quotes
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They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the…
— Anna Louise Strong
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You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that…
— Gerard Butler
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Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,
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You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about…
— Sam Lipsyte
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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage…
— Gautama Buddha
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Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in…
— Carolyn See
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I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a…
— Dolly Parton
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Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
— George Eliot
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I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are…
— Kit Carson
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on…
— Dylan Moran
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